I didn‘t know exactly where our paths would lead. I might study botany, or animal husbandry, or meteorology, or even take up the piano again. I wasn‘t sure what what I wanted in life, but I knew now that it was my choice, and as I grinned against Montgomery‘s face, I knew that there really was only one life, and I intended to live mine as richly as any person could.
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As Edward lay dying and my thoughts turned as fast as the carriage wheels, the horses whisked us away, far north, where the heath grew and wind twisted the trees, to a place where people were forgotten.
To a place we‘d never be found.
To a place where I might lose myself to the same dark madness that had claimed my father.
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Two columns of smoke rose into the stars—one from the volcano, one from the compound. And then I saw nothing, as the waves spun me around in their dips and swells and the island disappeared into night, except the glowing blaze where fire destroyed the red walls of my father‘s laboratory.
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The Last Travelers‘ Inn on the road from Inverness was no place to die.
Freezing rain lashed the windowpanes as I huddled over a warm bowl of soup in a corner of the inn‘s ground floor tavern.
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After escaping to a remote estate on the Scottish moors, owned by the enigmatic Elizabeth von Stein, Juliet Moreau, the product of her father's animal-human experiments, uncovers the truth about the manor's long history of scientific experimentation--and her own intended role in it.
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Halloween Reading Recommendations pt. 3 of 3
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Halloween Reading Recommendations pt. 2 of 3
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The air in my crumbling attic chamber smelled of roses and formaldehyde.
Beyond the frosted windowpanes, the rooftops of Shoreditch stretched toward the east in sharp angles still marked with yesterday‘s snow, as chimney stacks pumped smoke into an already foggy sky.
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